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To:-
Seget.
Addressed GOVERNOR, HONG KONG N° 344
C.O.
File No.
54145/16/48
Sent.
(OTP)
Mr. Mayle
11/3/48 atones
20.15
hours.
Repeated to:- AMBASSADOR, NANKING..
Mr.
Mr.
11/3
1948
Mr.
Mr.
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Further action :---
Kowloon City.
1. You have presumably received your
copies of Nanking telegrams Nos. 229 and
231.
2. It seems quite clear from latter
telegram that nothing short of actual
exercise of jurisdiction will be acceptable
to Chinese.` In these circumstances, if it
were decided, in spite of the Chinese
uncompromising attitude, to make a further
effort and put forward the Consulate
compound idea, the Chinese are not likely
to give us the assurance, for which we
should certainly have to this, that they
would not claim that this solution was an
admission of their claim to jurisdiction
and their right to exercise it. In the
circumstances, you will probably agree that
proposal for a Consulate compound. hardly
seems worth pursuing.
3. The alternative courses open to us
seem to be (a) to leave things as they are,
(b) to proceed with the proposal for a
park, (c) to proceed with the proposal
for